EditorialEbony and Ivory, ca. 1897, Platinum print, 18.3 x 20.0 cm (7 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.), Photographs, F. Holland Day (American, Norwood, Massachusetts 1864?1933 Norwood, Massachusetts), Although masked in the guise of exoticism or allegory, Day?s male figure st...
EditorialStanding Woman, 1912?15; cast 1930, Bronze, 73 7/8 x 32 x 17 3/4 in. (187.6 x 81.3 x 45.1 cm), Sculpture, Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) 1882?1935), Lachaise was working in Paris in 1903 when he met his lifelong muse Isabel Dutaud Nagle, whom ...
EditorialMarble head of Demosthenes, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble, Overall: 11 x 8 5/8 x 9 in. (27.9 x 21.9 x 22.9 cm), Stone Sculpture, Copy of a Greek bronze statue by Polyeuktos of ca. 280 B.C.. Demosthenes (ca. 384?322 b.c.) of Athens is widely...
EditorialEbony and Ivory, ca. 1897, Platinum print, 18.3 x 20.0 cm (7 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.), Photographs, F. Holland Day (American, Norwood, Massachusetts 1864?1933 Norwood, Massachusetts), Although masked in the guise of exoticism or allegory, Day?s male figure st...
Editorial? ??? ??? ? ??, Landscapes after old masters, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1630, China, Album of eight leaves; ink on paper, Image (each): 9 5/8 x 6 5/16 in. (24.4 x 16 cm), Paintings, Dong Qichang (Chinese, 1555?1636), Dong Qichang initiated a revo...
EditorialStanding Woman, 1912?15; cast 1930, Bronze, 73 7/8 x 32 x 17 3/4 in. (187.6 x 81.3 x 45.1 cm), Sculpture, Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) 1882?1935), Lachaise was working in Paris in 1903 when he met his lifelong muse Isabel Dutaud Nagle, whom ...
EditorialRevelers at a Table in the Countryside, 1760s, Pen and black ink with bister wash over black chalk, 9 15/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.3 x 19.6 cm), Drawings, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724?1780 Paris), An obsessive draftsman and lifelong Parisian, ...
EditorialMarble head of Demosthenes, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble, Overall: 11 x 8 5/8 x 9 in. (27.9 x 21.9 x 22.9 cm), Stone Sculpture, Copy of a Greek bronze statue by Polyeuktos of ca. 280 B.C.. Demosthenes (ca. 384?322 b.c.) of Athens is widely...
Editorial? ??? ??????? ? ??, Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1666, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 53 x 22 1/4 in. (134.6 x 56.5 cm), Paintings, Wang Shimin (Chinese, 1592?1680), This major work represents t...
EditorialDr. Karl Renner, President of Austria from 1945 to 1950, in his office in the Hofburg (Imperial Palace). He died at the age of 80 on December 31, 1950. The lifelong socialist founded both the first and the second Austrian Republics.